Monessen Public Library & District Center is also a Federal Depository Library. Links on this page help you find government nformation in our library and on the web.

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Federal Depository Policies & Procedures

In Our Library

You can search our online catalog and enter the document title, or click on this link to see a list of government documents and cataloged web sites within our catalog (press enter when you get to the search screen.) You can sort the list by title if you click on the word "Title" on the results screen.

If you can't find what you are looking for from this web page, we also have various other government documents and papers in our library that are not conducive to cataloging. Please come in and to help you.

On the Web

The following lists suggest the best sites to find government information available from federal, state, foreign, and international governments. (Links verified on December 2, 2004.)

Table of Contents

Federal Government: Finding Aids and Popular Sites

Guides

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (Official)
• Copyright Office (Forms, Laws, Records, etc.)

Documents and Forms

• FirstGov.gov (Official Web site for Searching the U.S. Government)
  • Science.gov (FirstGov for Science and Technology)
• Tax Forms and Publications (Internal Revenue Service)

Popular Sites - U.S. Federal Government Related

• Documents Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan)
• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)
• GovBenefits.com (Your Benefits Connection)
• GovSpot (Resources for Citizens and Government Employees)
• INFOMINE (huge collection of government resources and guides from the University of California, Riverside)
• Medicare

Branches of the U.S. Government

Legislative Branch

U.S. Congress

• US House of Representatives
• US Senate Home Page

Executive Branch

• White House Home Page

  The President's Cabinet Departments

Agriculture Commerce Defense Education Energy Health and Human Services Homeland Security Housing and Urban Development	Interior Justice Labor State Transportation Treasury Veterans Affairs
Cabinet Rank Members
The Vice President President's Chief of Staff	Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Office of Management and Budget Director Office of the United States Trade Representative Office of National Drug Control Policy

• List of Official Executive Branch Web Sites (Library of Congress)

Judicial Branch

Federal Agencies

• National Archives and Records Administration
  • Genealogical Research at the National Archives
• GPO Access (Official Federal Government Information at Your Fingertips)
  • Finding Aids (GPO Access)
  • FDLP Electronic Collection (Specialized Collections of Official Full Text Information)
  • Substitution List: (Official FDLP Permanent Full-Text Databases - GPO Access)
  • GPO Access's Multiple Database Search (search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office, with mirror, or Gateway, sites at over 20 universities, each with their own strengths.)

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Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information

• Congress.Org (searchable member directories and current awareness)
• Library of Congress (guide to the U.S. Legislative Branch)
• Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103^rd to current congresses)
• Internet Law Library (laws and regulations)
• Regulations.gov (Find, review, and submit comments on Federal documents that are open for comment and published in the Federal Register, the Government’s legal newspaper.)

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State Information

• State Constitutions, Statutes, and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)
• StateList (The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Law Libraries)
• (NASIS) National Association of State Information Systems (Find the CIO for any state and associated projects)
• Statutes (Consolidated and Unconsolidated)

State Government Collections -- try one of the following:

• American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)
• Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington)
• LawFind
• Piper Resources

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Pennsylvania State Government Web Sites

• Pennsylvania's Home Page
• PA Bulletin
• PA Code
• PA Department of Community and Economic Development
• PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
• PA Department of Education
• PA Department of Environmental Protection
• PA Department of General Services
• Bureau of Procurement
  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bid Opportunities
• PA Department of Health
  • Vital Records (e.g. birth, death, marriage, divorce, genalogy)
• PA Department of Motor Vehicles
• PA Department of Revenue
  • PA Tax Forms, Instructions, and Publications
  • PA Department of Revenue's e-Services Center
• PA Department of State
• PA Department of Treasury
  • State Contracts
• PA General Assembly
• Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency

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International and Foreign Information

• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Documents Center (International Agencies and Information on the Web - University of Michigan)
• Foreign Governments (links to individual foreign government pages - Nortwestern University Library)
• International Governmental Organizations (links to home pages of international organizations and agencies - Nortwestern University Library)
• U.S. State Department Home Page
• United Nations

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Statistical Resources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
• Government Data (NetEYE, Inc)
• InfoNation (United Nations)
• US Census Bureau

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Additional Resources

• Depository CD-ROM Guides (links to guides on government CDs via the University of Michigan; see also GODORT's CD-ROM Documentation Project)
• FindLaw Forms (Court Forms for Federal & State Courts)
• GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (search for government documents)
• Government Information and Depository Management Clearinghouse (ALA GODORT Education Committee)
• Migrating Government Publications (full-text docs via the University of Memphis, or try the collection of links and library-scanned publications at the University of Buffalo)
• Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians
• U.S. Government Online Bookstore

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Citizen Organizations

• Common Cause
• Common Cause Pennsylvania

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